Chapter 157: $1 Shopping Extravaganza

"One month ago, Tiktoc waged brutal commercial warfare against YouClub through sheer financial attrition. You likely overlooked their public $2 billion investment proclamation, but their actual expenditure..."

He exhaled deeply. "The $888 million individual bonanza virtually monopolized every Elysian live-streaming platform's traffic. They indisputably spent over $100 billion, based on my clandestine investigation of major platforms' viewer metrics those days."

"From the moment Tiktoc acquired YouClub, I foresaw their inevitable foray into Lumina City's corporeal markets. Yet I never anticipated such alacrity. Now I grow increasingly curious - who is the mastermind behind this live-streaming juggernaut? How did they amass such unfathomable wealth?"

Old Mr. Clark's revelation drained Daisy's radiant complexion, dispelling all vestiges of the Clark Group chairwoman or Lumina City Business University's peerless beauty.

"Grandfather, are we utterly impotent? Must we resign ourselves to o